On this weekend!

 This weekend started last Friday taken pictures in a Karate Event.

Using a Canon R6 with a Tamron 28-300.

This event was more private, focusing on a group of athletes being promoted to the next level. Instead of taking the Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L lens, I chose the Tamron 28-300mm, F/3.5-6.3, which doesn’t perform as well in low-light conditions as the EF 70-200L. After two rounds of editing, the image quality isn’t at its best, but it’s the best I could achieve given the circumstances.  Below I'm showing a picture taken in another event using the Canon lens so you can compare the difference in image quality.

Using the EF70-200 L f2.8.

Saturdays was my grandson sport events, one of them in soccer and the other one in American Flag Football. Here are two pictures taken in these events.

Grandparents supporting team!

Who is faster?

In this case, I brought along the Canon EF100-400mm L Mark II. This lens is exceptionally sharp and ideal for events like this, where zooming in for detailed shots is essential.

After the event, one of the parents asked me to take a photo with his son, which I was happy to do.

A hawk flew around and of course I took a shot of it. 

On Sunday I went to shoot wildlife on a local park. I shot some landscape...

I created a vertical panorama...

 

I shot some wildlife...

And took few shots of a local wildlife photographer that I believe was using a Canon R7 with an extender 1.4x and a RF150-500mm lens, for a total equivalent of 1120mm!

Local Wildlife Photographer.

With that I went home to process all pictures...

During this weekend I was testing the new battery LP-E6P.

Using H+ bursts in Eco Mode I got: 342 photos and final battery level at 76%.
Taking single pictures in Eco Mode I got: 149 photos and final battery level at 70%.

So it seems that it may benefit those using bursts.

 

 

 

Close to 10 years...

In March 2025, I'll reach 10 years since I got my first DSLR, a Nikon D5200, and began regularly taking wildlife pictures, mostly of birds and sometimes the two legged animals called humans 😂.

It has been a long learning process. When I look back at the pictures I took back then, I can see the significant improvement I've made over these 10 years. 

Photo taken in 2015 using the Nikon D5200.

I've taken more than 69,000 pictures, and that doesn't even include the ones that ended up in the Windows Trash Bin. This number may seem small for some photographers that use their camera in burst mode and shoot thousands of photos in one session. But believe me, these are 69000 pictures edited by me representing long hours seating in front of my computer. 

You can see these pictures organized by albums at Flickr, the platform that use to backup online my pictures.

Photo from my album Quinceañera, from November 2015. 
One of my first attempts to shoot an event.
At that time I was a firm believer in not editing my photos. 

This is one of my latest photos in a Karate Event, using a Canon R6 Mark I. 

 

 

Another picture taken with the Canon R6 Mark I,
an example of me editing a photo.

From time to time strangers ask for their photos to be taken.
Taken using the Canon R6 Mark I.

Extremely detailed photograph of the moon

 An Iraq-based photographer decided to take the most detailed picture of the moon. 

 ...it required four days of continuous moon observation and shooting, ending up with over 81,000 images. They were stacked together to create the final 708 GB piece, with a whopping 159.7 MP resolution. Darya merged four different moon phases and the moon’s shadow area to reveal the topography of the lunar surface.

You can see some of the pictures here. The quality of those pictures are amazing so the amount of work put into this project.

Exposing for the brightest subject

I really enjoy using this technique in photography. The concept is straightforward: you focus on a subject illuminated by a spot of light. To ensure the subject is properly exposed, you need to adjust the exposure compensation on your camera. This adjustment will naturally cause the background to appear very dark, often reaching black.

In post-processing, you then refine the image by trying to keep the background as dark as possible. The result is a striking photograph where the subject stands out vividly against a nearly black backdrop. This method is excellent for creating dramatic, high-contrast images that emphasize the subject.

Using a Canon R6 w/EF100-400L.

The above photo is part of an album created with Pictures taken at Spring Hill Coastal Botanical Garden. 

Shadows and lights

 This is what is photography about, a dance between shadows and lights. 

Taken with a Canon R6 w/EF100-400L.

Rainy Day...

 Even in a rainy day you can end with nice pictures.

Taken using a Canon R6 Mark I with EF100-400L.

Happy World Photography Day!

 Today, August 19th we celebrate the World Photography Day!

It takes place on this day to commemorate the French government's declaration of the patent for the invention. This day celebrates photographers and their craft, the process of documenting memories, and the opportunity to learn about other people and cultures through the medium of photography.